Tuesday, May 15, 2012

‘Humans still eat humans’ these days! - Người vẫn còn ăn thị người

‘Humans still eat humans’ these days! - Người vẫn còn ăn thị người

Foreign media have recently reported a recent arrest of three people
in Brazil, suspected of making ‘empanadas’ out of human flesh, adding
that the food have been sold out.

Although civilization governs all over the world, the incident still
convinces us that human cannibalism remains in the modern world, and it
still persists. A report said Brazil, in particular, has been linked to
cannibalism in recent years. The Lancet journal reported in 1994 “that
eating human remains” was common among 250 people who lived in an Olinda
slum. “Poverty and a lack of compliance with laws” were blamed, since
the starving individuals were eating human body parts that they found in
the Brazilian city’s garbage dump.

Modern science, however, suggests that humans are far from being good
eats for our own species because diseases can spread more readily with
some being particularly gruesome. Prion diseases, for example, are
thought to have inflicted prehistoric cannibals. These illnesses are
sometimes referred to as “spongiform encephalopathies” because they
often cause the brain to become riddled with sponge-like holes.